NATO towards Warsaw - significance for Norway and the Nordic
This project will contribute with new perspectives and understandings in the official debate in Norway, linked to security, collective defense and NATO. The delivery is a series of thr...
A conceptual history of diplomacy
Scholars of diplomacy have identified diplomatic practices across the human experience, spanning the globe and going back before recorded history. Even so, the actual term ‘diplomacy’ did not enter into usage until the last decade of the 18th century. Does this discrepancy matter, and if so, what can it tell us? These are the underlying questions of this chapter. Drawing on a relatively modest secondary literature, as well as a number of primary sources, Leira emphasises the relative modernity of the concept of ‘diplomacy’, and how it emerged very rapidly as part of a much wider transformation of political vocabularies around 1800. Furthermore, he stresses, how it emerged as a contested concept (almost a term of abuse), and how it has repeatedly been contested over the last two centuries.
Science and Business in Arctic Environmental Governance (POLGOV)
We know little about the role of science and business actors in contemporary Arctic governance. This project seeks to address this gap. ...
China and the Nordics Seminar Series
What roles can the Nordic countries play in China’s emerging European engagement? ...
Cybersecurity Capacity Building 2.0 - Bridging the digital divide and strengthening sustainable development
This project will study cybersecurity capacity building (CCB) and the sustainability of development processes in developing countries. ...
China's New Development Bank and Infrastructure-led Growth
In view of China’s recent launch of several new development banks (AIIB, OBOR, NDB) with a central focus on infrastructure, this NUPI Brief takes a look at how China’s infrastructure projects have fared both at home and abroad in the past. It asks the question: Does economic growth, boosted by infrastructure investment, necessarily benefit development? Admitting that infrastructure has played a crucial role in China’s development, as well as contributed to the changes in other developing countries, this brief cautions against several potential economic risks. To be more specific, three issues are highlighted: first, low usage and low profitability; second, debt and broken contracts; third, favouritism towards state-owned companies.
Community-based policing and post-conflict police reform (ICT4COP)
This research project will create greater knowledge of social, cultural, legal and ethical dimensions of community-based policing in post-conflict societies. ...